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”If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one’s subject matter”

“We need to green the desert of our mind, we need to fertilise our imagination and we need to believe that the future remains ours to make.

We shouldn’t be sanctimonious about the problems that face the world, it’s not a question of wearing a hair shirt and punishing ourselves. We should be saying: look how cool the world could be. Our job is to create a fever of excitement about the world that is ours to make better.”

“In any industry, people that work in a less industrial way, people that have a more artisanal way of thinking, are more open to innovation, a different kind of product, to reinvent. They are never scared to take risks”

“They don’t come here just to buy a dress, or to buy a bag. Frankly, if it was just a commodity, then you have the internet – but we give luxury. We give the ability to the people to have a moment of dreaming.”

“Robots in essence represent the merger of two long-standing trends: the advancement of technology to do our work and the use of a service class that can provide cheap labour for higher classes of society. In this light, robots are a sign of technological advancement but also an updated version of the slave labour that in past centuries people used to exploit other human beings.”

“Who would know more about the drama of our daily lives than a Roomba or Dropcam? Might a self-driving car write the next Kerouac-style novel? A crime procedural show as seen from surveillance cameras’ points of view? One could imagine a bored smart-home staging a re-enactment from old log files while the family is away, replaying a family dinner through re-runs of lighting, air conditioning and appliance settings, like a domotic puppet show.”